Exploring Health

as a Student of Life


For as long as I can remember my attention and focus has been drawn by a question, “what am I living in?” and “how does all this work?”. The two questions gave rise to a life where my work is the externalisation of my internal world. 

These two questions have led to an ever deepening interest and awe for Life; its structures, its functions, its interactions, its changes. At a personal level it has become an  inspired fascination with Anatomy, Physiology, “Mind” and how we are Nature. My interest in my problems are an internal prompt on a curious quest to explore the structure and functions of me, my history and to see what happens in the “re-wilding” process.  In this process I found myself noticing it all being the same as “life’s movements”.

The more I experience and learn with this focus, the more I notice some of the hidden challenges within the challenges that are possible to overcome in order to make new progress.

This personal learning has carried into all of my professional learning (started in the health and wellness industry in 2002) and carried over into my training, treating, teaching, coaching and mentoring. What is starting to become clearer to me now is that awareness, interest and control of ones self are key requirements for conscious change. It is these 3 “things” that I am helping people to explore (in them selves) with their own anatomy, physiology and “mind”.  It is a slow, steady and nonlinear process (like all things in life).

I can only work genuinely with people the way that I work with myself and so, it  is an organic process to be uncovered and explored. It is best suited to those that value the nature of a process and are accepting of the challenges that come with it and self education, self discovery, self awareness.

The majority of the people that I work with are referrals and have very specific issues that they want help with (often working together with other therapists, trainers and teachers). If things go well and we start to see results, things can progress to more overall health related focuses which involves a blend of restorative movement, cranial sacral therapy and ayurvedic lifestyle coaching. Every so often someone will need help with the exercise technique because they keep having issues when in the gym (on their own or working with a trainer). These personal training sessions are focused on corrective exercise and is very much about developing new skills (working in) rather than working out.

At a Fundamental level, my interest for myself and for others is the journey towards “better”…

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” ―Maya Angelou



FOCUS

  • Qualifying as a Personal Trainer in 2002 and focusing on corrective exercise from about 2006, my love of movement has been focused on the details of “why doesn’t that feel right” or “what is stopping me from being able to do that”. We all have a history of bumps and scrapes, sprains strains, tears, dislocations, impacts, fractures, breaks, surgeries etc. They are often not worked with (for restoration) anywhere close to their potential. When working with people. my interest is to find these parts of their history, assess them, think about them, develop a hypothesis and start exploring them with specifically detailed movement to see how influential they are in the conditions of the problems; Then starts the process of finding the challenges within the challenges that can help people work their way through their problems and transform towards “better” …

    “Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.” ― Hippocrates

  • I certified in 2015 under Jonathan Lawrence (Turning Point Training) and have recently started to retake the modules to continue my study into this work with the Upledger Institute UK.

    “There is a deeper layer of activity that has barely been touched upon. This deeper layer has to do with the energies that integrate the animated, living, homeostatic body. The day will come when they too will be catalogued and their laws understood.”William Sutherland

  • In August 2023, Studying under the great teachers of the School of Ayurveda UK, I completed a 9 month diploma in Ayurvedic Life Style Coaching: the beginning of a life time of study…

  • I feel very fortunate that I started in the Health and Fitness industry when it was focused on "health related exercise". After 21 years in the Industry (so far) I have finally come to see some of the basic principles that could go a long way if we think about the "aggregation of marginal gains". My focus in these session is much more about teaching you how to apply your body to your exercises rather than the exercises to your body. The sessions are all about form, learning about the variables of intensity and helping you learn how to use exercise to improve your "posture" so that it can play a part in helping you towards your health goals.


PRICES

  • In Person:

    First session:

    • 75 minutes and £125.00

    Follow Ups are as and when you want them and can be:

    • 30 minutes and £50.00

    • 50 Minutes and £95.00

    • 75 Minutes and £125.00


LOCATION

  • Millers Way Project

    • Millers Way, Shepherds Bush, London, W6 7NH

CONTACT

christopher.sritharan@gmail.com